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Our objective is to provide site-specific fire and forest histories from Utah and eastern Nevada that can be used for land management or additional research. We systematically sampled fire scars and...

Projections of future climate were selected for four well-established general circulation models (GCM) forced by each of three greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions scenarios, namely A2, A1B, and B1 from...

The development of the offshore petroleum industry is a remarkable story of inventiveness, entrepreneurship, hard work, and risk-taking that turned Louisiana's relatively isolated coastal communities...

The National Research Council, in a series of evaluations of the Minerals Management Service's (MMS) programs, has pointed out that while the MMS is responsible for the activities on the federal...

The National Research Council, in a series of evaluations of Minerals Management Service's (MMS) programs, has pointed out that while MMS is responsible for the activities on the federal offshore it...

This Act authorized the purchase of wetlands from Land and Water Conservation Fund moneys, remov-ing a prior prohibition on such acquisitions. The Act also requires the Secretary to establish a...

A good Schoolyard Habitat project is ecologically sound, integrated into the curriculum and designed to encourage long-term stewardship. For a project to be sustainable, it must have active...

AbstractThis report presents annual data but is published every 2 years. The data present current and historical information on the production, trade, consumption, and prices of timber products in...

This report complies with Section 845 of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2009, which requires the Secretary of Defense to report biennially to the congressional defense...

This paper provides an overview of the security threats from embedded scripts and binary executables in Office 2000 documents. It recommends ways to mitigate or counter these threats. The four...

More than 73 million acres of our national forests and millions more in public and private forestlands are in need of some form of restoration. Our forests are declining in health because of major...

Improvements to housing will require both research and the transfer of that research to homebuilders, homebuyers, and others in need of technology. This report summarizes results of a national survey...

Fresh water is a valuable and essential commodity in the Pacific Northwest States, specifically Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and one provided abundantly by forested watersheds in the region. The...

The DISA IT Acquisition Framework includes nine proactively tailored IT acquisition models for DISA products and services. USD(AT&L), the Defense Acquisition Executive, stresses that the first...

ESX Server is the core component of VMware's Virtual Infrastructure 3 server virtualization product. Virtual Infrastructure is at the forefront of a rapidly growing server virtualization field. This...

The threat to health and readiness of sailors and Marines posed by malaria stimulated the creation of the Malaria "Blue Book" in 1984. Prevention and treatment of malaria is more complex due to the...

Executive Order 13526 and its implementing direction, 32 CFR Part 2001, prescribes a uniform security classification system. This system requires that standards markings be applied to classification...

This Glossary complements the NATO Glossary of Terms and Definitions, AAP-6, which lists terms and definitions of general application in NATO documents. The NATO terminology policy as laid down in...

Climate change creates new challenges for resource managers and decision-makers with broad and often complex effects that make it difficult to accurately predict and design management actions to...

The Sixth Annual Forest Inventory and Analysis Symposium was held September 21-24, 2004, in Denver, CO. The symposium was integrated with the Monitoring Science and Technology Symposium sponsored in...

The value of long-term research is that individual people do not live as long as trees and therefore are unable to watch, learn, and understand the growth and regeneration processes. Even foresters...

This study presents techniques for calculating average net annual additions to carbon in forests and in forest products. Forest ecosystem carbon yield tables, representing standlevel merchantable...

This report reviews the growing literature on the concept of agency-citizen interactions after large wildfires. Because large wildfires have historically occurred at irregular intervals, research...

This study gives an overview of the current inventory status and the projection of future forest inventories on other public timberland. Other public lands are lands administered by state, local, and...

Hemlock dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium tsugense [Rosendahl] G.N. Jones) is a small, inconspicuous parasite that has significant effects on tree growth and stand structure in coastal forest ecosystems...

Six years of monitoring for ozone injury by the Pacific Northwest Research Station Forest Inventory and Analysis Program are reported. The methods used to evaluate injury, compute an injury index,...

Rangeland exclosures installed primarily in the 1960s, but with some from the 1940s, were resampled for changes in plant community structure and composition periodically from 1977 to 2004 on the...

This guidebook describes the Grass Mountain Research Natural Area, a 377-ha (931-ac) tract in the Oregon Coast Range. The area supports a grass bald complex surrounded by stands dominated by noble...

This report examines the growth and development of the tourism industry in Hoonah, Alaska, and its effects on community life and resource use. The report describes the gradual development of tourism...

Lichens are highly valued ecological indicators known for their sensitivity to a wide variety of environmental stressors like air quality and climate change. This report summarizes baseline results...